Topic: Bid rigging

Malaysia’s Competition Commission is investigating more than 500 companies for rigging government tenders worth more than 2 billion ringgit (€417.6 million), the agency’s chief executive has revealed.

15 December 2021

Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has fined eight aluminium alloy makers nearly €15.6 million after finding they rigged bids for products ordered by Hyundai Motor and affiliate Kia.

08 December 2021

A federal judge in Colorado has rejected two defendants' request for a mistrial in the Department of Justice’s case alleging price-fixing and bid-rigging in the broiler chicken industry, calling the petition premature.

06 December 2021

Hong Kong’s Competition Commission has for the first time asked the territory’s specialist tribunal to accept a settlement with three companies it has accused of fixing the price of bulk mail equipment.

25 November 2021

Peru’s antitrust enforcer has fined 33 construction companies and 26 of their executives over €608 million for rigging bids on 112 tenders for public road projects.

24 November 2021

The Department of Justice has pushed back against a defendant’s claims in its broiler chicken price-fixing case that messages between two FBI agents show that the officials are unreliable witnesses.

17 November 2021

An Australian producer of an active pharmaceutical ingredient for antispasmodic medication has pleaded guilty to criminal cartel charges after admitting it fixed prices, rigged bids and allocated customers.

16 November 2021

Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has fined three shipping companies nearly €3.6 million for colluding to rig bids for transporting heavy equipment such as engines and forklifts over an eight year period.

08 November 2021

Six individuals charged with fixing prices and rigging bids of broiler chicken have stressed their innocence to a jury in Colorado.

28 October 2021

The Department of Justice and former chicken company executives have squared off in a federal Colorado court over whether increased chicken prices during the last decade were because of criminal antitrust violations or industry forces and business strategies.

27 October 2021